much force on d, w ah, this is definitely news. live from bourbon, as war rages in ukraine. there are the 1st glimmers of hope. ukraine and russia agree. peace talks, even as moscow's troops drew close at his fuel. depos come under attack, but the mayor says the city is still holding out, get the latest from our correspondence in ukraine. meanwhile, germany says the war marks a turning point in history. the chance of a hold of shots announces a massive upgrade of buildings, military capability and plants to cut germany's dependence on russian energy

supplies and rallies for peace in cities around the world. here in berlin, more than $100000.00 turn out to demand an end to the fight. ah, i'm anthony, how broken to the program. we begin with the 1st hopes for dialogue over the war in ukraine. president vladimir lindsey's office, isabel hold negotiations with russian officials at the border with beller. bruce, russia says talks had not yet begun, but the 2 sides are arriving at the location. in other developments president vladimir putin has put russia's nuclear forces on alert, in an escalation of tensions with the west, the u. s. has accused him of manufacturing threats. fighting continues on the ground in hue crime. russian forces have attacked fuel depots and there are reports a big asians outside the capital kings. the mayor says there are no russian troops

in the city. battles are still going on around other population centers. for more, let's bring in date of the correspond. nick connelly, who's in vanessia in western g, cried nick the ukranian side as announced that the negotiations have already begun, but the russian foreign ministry has denied that. do we know for sure what is happening? and bushy as a ways, right? you know, over the last few days, we don't have any conclusive information either way. that's been the same way in terms of the actual fighting, whether jealous on the ground and see during war there since ships. so no side really giving a full picture. it is important that this is even happening. it's all. and it's happening without precondition that's being seen as a victory for ukraine because the russians basically were pushing for the brain to turn up and find what essentially amounts to capitulation. they see demilitarize in allowing rochelle way influence over there in general politics and busy allowing

rushed to kind of my brains to micro, strictly government. but us for these talks, i'm not very confident there's actually going to be much to them. we've heard as much from volume lensky says he's not impressed. or you're convinced because this could just be attracted by russia to win some time. we've seen russian troops, russian tanks getting stuck on roads in ukraine, stuck while invading ukraine because they basically haven't caught up with a few slides. so this could be just a little bit of tech ticking, glad to preach. and he did the same just before this invasion where you entered to mental microphones that he was open some big summit. there will be a meeting between foreign ministers. and then before those meetings that even happened, he sent his tanks rolling over the border. so not much truck during ukraine, the russians are playing fairly. and i think it's just important to stop for a minute and just think how crazy the situation is. they're going to be meeting at the board next, which noble nuclear power station on the border region. ukraine beller is, is, it's like something out of our kind of fantasy noble russian troops control the

channel nuclear power station, which is the thought, the world's biggest nuclear incident at 60 kilometers from ki, if there are any fighting the huge risks to some millions of fact but now these 2 countries are meeting at the border next to nuclear. disaster zone is just an indication of what extraordinary kind of search you're on right now. give us a sense of how the people are feeling in ukraine. do they have hope for these paced talks or given the brutality of the last 4 days, or they just focus more on fighting to defend their country at this point? i think definitely more of the latter. i think you great and have been very cheered by seeing how well, how well the great, you know me is holding up against the russian army, especially those of the western weapons and to tank missed all that had been brought to grain from the u. s. u k. seem to be pretty effective and they definitely slowed down the source. and once you read, when you read russian channels, they seem pretty shocked at how slow the ball is going. they thought they could

just have some going to blitz and get to get it within a day or 2. and then the ukranian government in check. so fleeing out of care that hasn't happened. lots of russian troops being taken prisoner. lots of these tanks images everywhere on social media here of destroyed tanks and also new creations. i was just in a youth center today where you had dozens of young people, if not hundreds, making camouflage netting collecting food and equipment for the truth that was of refugees heading west from here. so if it was trying to do more like ukraine is, it seems like the chief just the opposite that has fallen again. nerves are, i guess a constant for the paper, but just quickly are not the most nervous times during an invasion. definitely, and we've been spending a lot of our time in bomb raid shelters, in this case where we are in just this blocks cellar. and just to give you a bit of insight, the reason why i'm sitting here in the living room in front of a bookshelf is because i can't stand outside with lights with

a camera light or even the window without locals being worried that i'm trying to give some kind of signal that i'm a kind of sleeper agent, and it will sound like something from a novel, but this is real. these kind of cases have been found just today. there been reports of russian agents trying to destroy a re dos sites, about 10 clients who are and now lots of shooting that i can't verify that, but it does seem to fit the big patent to go very know this very distrusting of strangers. but overall, not panicking and fairly cheered right now by where this is going. and you know, the ability to green army, to actually sit this out and to make russia think twice about whether this is actually going to work out a w correspondent, commonly and western new crime. thanks so much a turning point in the history of our continent. that's our chancellor left shell to describe russia's war against ukraine. speaking to a special station of parliament, the german leader announced a raft of policy changes that would have been unthinkable just days ago. germany

will drastically strengthen its military and move quickly to eliminate its reliance on russian energy exports. they put the blame squarely on russian president vladimir putin, who he said, had bought decades of peaceful coexistence to an end. is the german chancellor earlier today, put in that and also says imperial fruits and wants to create a russian empire. and he wants to reconfigure europe, according to his own ideas. and he does not hesitate to use military violence. what we see this to day in ukraine. so we must ask ourselves what capabilities putin's russia has. and what capabilities do we need to meet this threat to day and in the future are under that so called the emerson douglas mia. and that we must invest more in the security of our country to defend our freedom. and democracy says that if a new from now on year for year,

more than 2 percent of our gdp will be invested in defense. we spoke earlier to our chief political correspondent, mikaela christina, and put it to her that this is a historic change in german foreign and defense policy. absolutely, this is a paradigm shift in german defense policy. frankly, we've seen more change in that in the past 24 hours than in the previous 24 years. that is now safe to say. it started when saturday evening. we got news that will assaults is now planning for germany to directly deliver weapons to ukraine. although we're not sure yet in which sample form that hand of will actually take place. and then today we heard from a social democrat, john say, whose chief whip in parliament is really leaning in the direction of having to having tried to understand rosa, in the past, more of a pacifist kind of angle. while he out of all people now announced these

100000000000 on top of the ordinary defense budget, that's twice more than twice the current defense budget here in germany. and he's also agreed to above 2 percent of g d. p. going into defense, the latest as of 2024. this is something donald trump tried to get the germans to move towards it throughout his tenure and failed. and this is all just happened of the past 24 hours and our chief political correspondent, mikaela customers, which i said also caught up with all my naughty poor a member of parliament for the pacifist green's. he's the party co leader and its parliamentary spokesman on foreign affairs with the north for the greens were set on diplomacy until the very last moment where it was your party naive. no, we tried to balance the dialogue and toughness and it was highly necessary to do so . by murray, we see that no will, for, for peace in the kremlin. and this is why we have to shift, so to, to, to shift either going to be now and moment of toughness is, is starting with a,

a package of a lot of packages of sanctions which cannot harm the kremlin economy. and of course, we're going to give a weapons to our friends in ukraine because they have this international it rules, rules based right of self defense. are we going to support them? we know that the ukranian people are now fighting not only for themselves, but for us, for democracy indignity. if i told you a week ago that you would agree to a 100000000000 extra for the german armed forces, you probably wouldn't have believed me. what has happened a we always said, till it escalating an escalating for by the, by the russian side we always are saying that all, all options with the table and we can't exclude anything. so was we gonna have a lot of talks and discussions among each other within the coalition to find the

right way to spend this money. and of course, we know that energy security also security. and we're one of the countries who failed to diversify from, from a dependency of, from, from russian forces. and this has to be changed immediately and very fast. and this is what it didn't happen for the last 16 years. now this is nothing sort of a paradigm shift and towards both strength, germany's military capabilities you mentioned, energy is a time for the greens as well to rethink whether they said, really div atomic energy. i'll listen of the companies we're owning and, and, and running this d a nuclear power plants in germany are telling us that there is no way to extend without our reducing security standards. if there is one branch which we should not reduce the standards unsecurely, this is nuclear power plants. so i do not see that happening. it's not even prudent

. still some on the german government can do any business with. i don't think that put in is the right person to do business anymore. i always had been a, a complicated partner. but now he's a war criminal. we can see that we see cluster bombs falling and at, at, at hospitals in dumbass. we see the we can see it when, when rockets are launched at a nuclear, a waste facilities or for gas tanks. so it's about disconnecting and term, and having a clear stand and a side of our friends in ukraine. now we've seen this drastic change in germany's outlooks, a security and strategic outlook. what more is there to come? we have herb to see on a daily basis. what's necessary? there is nothing i can exclude in this moment. but or what is clear is that are we gonna use, of course, democratic measures and, and,

and we're gonna find ways of compromises it would in the german democracy and, and, and her, i'll try to convince the german public that peace have no prospect on. we know poor cody's of the green party. thank you very much. thank you. that's out of germany. the european union is to finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to ukraine. for the 1st time. european commission president ursula funder line says the 27 nation block is also closing its a space to russian aircraft. and we'll seek to ban state and media. on the line announced new sanctions targeting the regime of belarus in liter, alexander shanker, for supporting rushes action as well that we will target the other or for more let's bring in date of the correspondent kristin. we're in brussels. christina big di, what stood out for you. and then for the 1st time in the european union's history, the block is going to collectively purchase and supply lethal military aid for

a 3rd member can or 3rd country. in this case, that is ukraine. we understand that this is to the amount of some 450000000 euros. now this is under what is called the european piece facility. it's a mechanism that was launched last year and it has rolled out 1000000 some assistance to the african union. for example, but this assistance was non lethal assistance and now for the 1st time, the bulk of the money that has been dedicated to a single country, a 3rd country or ukraine, is going to be lethal assistance. and that is the 1st time again i in the blocks history, the, it was also announced that individual member states that have already at donated military assistance or to the ukrainian on forces are going to be compensated. that is, the block is going to refund them for that. and we're talking about retrospective compensation going as far back to military ad deville aid that was given an in,

in january for example. and they say that the idea here is to encourage individual member states to continue to support ad ukrainian armed forces and also to maybe encourage others to start doing so as well. so a strong show of solidarity in terms of coming together as the block in reaching the decision to support at the ukrainian on forces separately to that. in addition to the, the flight ban of all russian aircraft are in on the air space. more individuals in russia about 20 are going to be further sanctioned. and as well as that, of course, at bill ruse at to receive further sanctions as well. christina woodard in brussels. thanks so much. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin as put his deterrence forces, including nuclear armed forces on high alert. in a video distributed by the kremlin, put, and said, nato powers had made aggressive statements towards russia. he also blamed economic

sanctions that will cut off russian banks from international transactions. indeed, mister bowden is blaming the west for his decision to put rushes nuclear forces on a lit was really my believe you were it. not only our western countries taking unfriendly economic steps against our country. and i mean the illegal sanctions that everyone knows about very well. what the top officials of leading nato countries are also making aggressive statements about our country receiving. therefore, i order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff. but to put the deterrent forces of the russian military. because women to a special mode of combat duty bdc. and from them this, i am now joined by constantine exit d. w. 's russian at face expert constantine, welcome. mr. perkins moved to put russian nuclear forces on high alert. what does

this mean or change? well, mr. brewton used a very unusual who are describing what this is going to be a specific, and i looked up the russian armed forces menu, a current menu. and there is no such thing as the height alert of recon with beauty or special in state of pre comedy. i mean it's very difficult to translate, frankly what you want to say. and he wasn't actually sure what, what was going to say. so or commander in chief to use an expression that does not exist in the army manuals is highly unusual because it basically gives a very confused message. and one should have seen. i mean, probably you also slightly confused of the dazzled expression on the face of the russian defense minister said to be sure you probably didn't expect that to. i will

be surprised, frankly speaking, after all we've seen recently, but i think the message is quite clear. it is an attempt to leverage a russian nuclear arsenal and probably to put pressure on the news again, the president, the crime, and the delegation that is part of them does understand as of now, a conduct a negotiations with the russian delegation of the border of dealers and the crime, but anyway, frank is speaking in terms of the international image. this didn't, didn't work wonders for me to put in to put it mildly. because that just basically heightens the or increases the impression that the world is dealing with someone who's not actually really looking at events the way everyone else looks at them and probably really miscalculate to really miss judges. a lot of things that, that, of course, is going to increase the sense of danger. probably. that's what mr. put in once,

but this definitely, i think, is not going to deter anyone. you crying, the ukraine or the west. is this a sign that he's miscalculated? you say, is it a sign that putting his raffled some? how does this move along to this growing narrative that his war has not gone to plant? well look, even this, i mean we discussed that even if it's someone who just said go 3 years, did my national says, i can tell it is war didn't go the way it was supposed to go. i mean, it's not, it's impossible to imagine that one of the world's leading army is an army of a nuclear nuclear states, which basically has been trained and what they were telling us the, the, the, the grant was selling the world, the russian i'm has been excellently trained, excellently equipped and they, they called basically take a major ukrainian city ah, during all days of the extreme maintenance fighting. and frankly speaking,

looking at a lot of videos coming out of your crime, understand part of it is it will. ringback be completely normal, is kind of war propaganda info with the quote, but a lot of it is completely jenny. look, i'm a native russian speak. i look at the videos of this captured russian boys you can't imitate is excellent. you can't imitate this kind of regional way of behaving and why you can't imitate this was talking about their sort of families and the way they were, they were, they would go to the actually to integral see if you grad so i think it is not only and p r. disaster to put the syndicate. it is already military results to put in and of course his records. i think that eventually the jones have to tell me that the, i'm taking care of them of the they haven't established control. we cried. she can't deny your inaugurated popular president that he probably wanted to bring into here at any time soon. so it seems it's, i don't want to rush about,

but it does look that he is running out of constant blind. and that is a dangerous moment, because okay, we're not talking about using nuclear weapons that's not easily done. actually in any chain of command is a bit more complicated than just the president, pressing the button. but what i'm afraid of and they're really prayed, won't happen, is and he will start showing you great as it is with a sentence massage, which we haven't seen on last until now that i think the general understand that there will be major walker. and i think that it will lead to nothing anyway, because hand to hand combat in the city is an extremely difficult business and very bloody one for the, for the packing force. so, but we are definitely coming very close to an extremely important moment, a breaking moment actually in all these can pay and that my mac, right to get your thoughts. they did please. russian affairs expert konstantin. a good thank you. russians have joined the anti war

protests in more than 30 cities from moscow to siberia. the demonstrators chanted no to war. st. petersburg, police in rocky moved into the time. protest doesn't drag them to police fans even though the rally was peaceful. rights for it said that hundreds of people were detained across the country. and by the persons have also been protesting brushes, invasion of ukraine, which borders delivered to the south protest were mounted in lithuania, with some deliberation opposition, figures in exile. they. they condemned miller versus president eating the russian attack. they've also purchased in the verse itself, where we can speak now with fed, lana, picking a sky, she's the leader of the opposition in bella verse. she was forced into exile by delivers autocratic lead alexander. because you are welcome to you has significant with everything that you know, and with saying, are these protests in belarus?

no, for our country. it's so important and fascinating to see. after all, the repressions we are had been enduring for year and a half already to see relish to see people on the streets that you know, i at the moment about 800 people had been detained in being in newark for couple of hours. and over about 70000 people when to release against the war. it's like new we offer and protests in barrows. now we protested against the war and the b one to support our ukrainian neighbors. it, you know, because they apply to look on that for themselves. they are fighting for the future of bills and the whole region that you is imposing new sanctions on deliveries. i figure chron what role is pillars playing?

in this conflict, interviewer says i ashamed that a biller was now became an aggressor towards ukraine. but we have to divide regime and burleson people. there are some people don't want her to fight against her, our brothers ukrainians. but regime is using our land as am. it is place for it for russian troops to invade ukraine. and i see it is a bit of to see how a to, to, to was bill ro, sense is been changing at the moment. and i, in i, when they were in countries, i want to ask our didn't, for the countries to understand that all those who had to flee the country. so they were all the repressions. they are north, the part of the regime. they're part of it. there were some people who had been

fighting for and predict changes in our country for a year, and a half already. part of russia's attack was launched from military vices in your country. is vladimir putin effectively the man in control of believers. i think that lucas shameka is not controlling our territory anymore. he's like prevalence muscle and he has to show his layla to for the support he good after for fraudulent elections and them it yes there will. it, it takes from the territory of bureaus and lucas, and because the full responsibility for these actions. and i now didn't ask for the previous question. sorry about sanctions. i'm sure that in this moment it's high time to impose their toughest economical pressure on the regime as long as it's russia, because no gosh,

and she is their responsibility for the innovation to their korean terence room. briefly belarus is holding a referendum to die. that could see lucas shank, a cement his grip on power. do you fear belarus? his fight for democracy is being forgotten and lost and in what's happening a new crime b we for about 2 years. we are fighting for democracy and i don't, i don't see that attention to our country decreased. now i see that attention was shifted to korean and it's normal because we see the trade that you offered ukrainian or country at the moment. but no democracy in bill arose, but he's our most value and who to fight for it. and i'm sure that in future a democratic congress b b alone will be

a rossier for follow. fighting for atlanta, taking a sky of belarus and human rights activists and politicians. thank you so much for your time. thank if it wasn't a doubly news. there's more at the top at the out. don't forget this complete coverage of russia's war against crime on our website. to be 5 d, w dot com, as well as on twitter and instagram to the handle you need is that d. w. use marshall with

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